David Southward grew up in southwest Florida and earned degrees in English from Northwestern and Yale Universities. Since 1998 he has taught literature and graphic arts in the Honors College at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
David’s poetry collections include Bachelor’s Buttons (Kelsay Books, 2020) and Apocrypha, a sonnet sequence based on the Gospels (Wipf & Stock, 2018). He is a two-time winner of the Lorine Niedecker Prize from the Council for Wisconsin Writers, and in 2019 his poem “Mary’s Visit” received the Frost Farm Prize for Metrical Poetry. David resides in Milwaukee with his husband, Geoff, and their two beagles.
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Paperback: 124 pages
Publisher: Kelsay Books (September 4, 2025)